Philip Whalen lectures on writing and seeing. He begins by talking about his experience at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and goes on to discuss John Locke's ideas about how people convey their experience to others. He also refers to the thinking of Bishop Berkeley, Laurence Sterne, Charles Olson, and Allen Ginsberg. Whalen reads and discusses some of his writing,including his poem "Apple gravy" and part of his novel You Didn't Even Try. The lecture ends with a question and answer session.

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